C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and their friends were a regular feature of the Oxford scenery. On Thursday nights, they met in Lewis's Magdalen College rooms to read aloud from the books they were writing. Jokingly, they called themselves 'The Inklings'.

The Inklings: Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for Best Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

CARPENTER, Humphrey

Arts & Literature

Harpercollins

, 246 pages with 10 introductory pages illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs maps to endpapers

Geniuses together: American writers in Paris in the 1920s

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Unwin Hyman

Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s

HarperCollins, Publishers

First edition. The remarkable story of Lewis, Tolkien, Williams and their friends at Oxford. xvi, 287 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and their friends

George Allen& Unwin Ltd

Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children's Literature

Studies children's literature authors, identifies common sources of inspiration, and explores those aspects of their culture that prompted them to artistically make childish sense of the grown-up world.

Secret gardens: A study of the golden age of children's literature

Allen& Unwin

The Joshers: Or, London To Birmingham with Albert and Victoria : a story of the canals

G. Allen & Unwin

The Captain Hook Affair

J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography

W. H. Auden disapproved of literary biography. Or did he? The truth is more equivocal than it at first appears. Humphrey Carpenter himself neatly summarizes Auden's ambiguity: 'Here, as so often in his life, Auden adopted a dogmatic attitude which did not reflect the full range of his opinions, and which he sometimes flatly contradicted.' Although Carpenter's biography, first published in 1981, was unauthorized, he did receive the co-operation of the Auden Estate, and the results remain of unimpeachable merit. "Carpenter is a model biographer - diligent, unspeculative, sympathetic, and extremely good at finding out what happened when and with whom". (John Bayley, Listener). "An illuminating book; full of information, unobtrusively affectionate, it describes with unpretentious elegance the curve of a great poet's life and work". (Frank Kermode, Guardian). "A deeply interesting book about a deeply interesting life". (Roy Fuller, Sunday Times).

W.H. Auden

As a rule, magic carpets don't turn up in schools, but this is exactly what happens when Class Three’s new teacher flies in through the classroom window and lands on the floor with a bump. Mr Majeika can behave just like any ordinary teacher if he wants to, but something has to be done about Hamish Bigmore, the class nuisance, and so he uses a little magic to turn him into a frog. And to everyone's delight it looks as if Hamish will have to remain a frog because Mr Majeika can't remember the spell to turn him back again! With Mr Majeika in charge, suddenly life at school become much more exciting – there's even a magic-carpet ride to Buckingham Palace!

Confident Readers Mr Majeika

Puffin

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